Challenges the conventional view of a “disenchanted” and secular modernity, and recovers the complex relation that exists between science, religion, and esotericism in the modern world.
Choosing among various meanings given to the word in modern languages, Faivre (emeritus religious studies, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Sorbonne) examines esotericism as a group of specific histo
Restores the Platonic history and context of mysticism and shows how mysticism helps us understand more deeply the humanities as a whole, from philosophy and literature to art.
Demonstrates how Rene Daumal, author of Mount Analogue, (a study of Hindu philosophy and poetics) and the teaching of G. I. Gurdjieff combined with Daumal's early surrealist tendencies in determining
This fascinating work explores John Dee s Enochian magic and the history of its reception. Dee (1527 1608/9), an accomplished natural philosopher and member of Queen Elizabeth I s court, was also an e
A new anthology of the work of Frithjof Schuon that includes philosophical writings along with a selection of his poems, artworks, and unpublished writings from his personal papers. Frithjof Schuon (
This reprint of the 1972 original biographical history of French occult figure Eliphas Levi provides a new generation with access to an interesting work on the important writer and occult priest as we
This is an introduction to the perennialist school of comparative religious philosophy and a guidebook for the general reader seeking intellectually serious but accessible answers to questions about t
